Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attached to the wall of the castle were forty of the creatures , hanging upside down and gently hissing at each other . |
| 2 | George did n't bother to explain the process by which he had deflected the first demand — that Maxim go round to Century House by himself — by a counter-offer of Number 10 ( ‘ As it 's a Saturday , we could use the Cabinet Room ; think how that would look in your memoirs ’ ) — or one of his clubs , naming the one that had been effectively the HQ of the Intelligence Service in the heady days of World War II , and finally agreeing on this no-man's-land . |
| 3 | Our main 1979 survey was designed largely to throw light on this relationship between people 's knowledge about credit and how they make actual shopping decisions — the first major study to explore this in this country , and more searching in this respect than even the valuable American studies carried out recently for the National Commission on Consumer Finance and the Federal Reserve Board . |
| 4 | This concern should focus first on understanding ‘ how it is possible ’ for corporate crime to be endemic in our ‘ law and order ’ society , and second , and hopefully flowing from this understanding , ‘ how can it be contained or regulated ? ’ |
| 5 | Each one seizing his or her bundle of wraps and nearly tumbling over each other on the narrow stair leading down to the cabin deck . |
| 6 | I wrote to tell him this , and also referring to another book he had sent me , and I received a reply dated 19 March 1937 : |
| 7 | The work naturally becomes more analytical and mathematically challenging at this stage . |
| 8 | No but as erm Mrs has mentioned to me , when it comes to er converting an existing garage into a den or a study and then asking for another garage to be built . |
| 9 | In this Jarmusch does not follow the cinematic norm of letting a sequence develop to a climax and then cutting to another sequence . |
| 10 | In practice that means keeping an eye out for leadership qualities and sometimes selecting on that basis and , at the same time , encouraging the absorption of certain leadership precepts by those who do not seem to possess them in a natural way . |
| 11 | Strangely , and almost coinciding with this modification to weight reduction , I found myself in a lack-of-petrol situation . |
| 12 | Dean Acheson sent an aide-mémoireto the ROK ambassador on 3 April protesting at the state of the economy and firmly warning against any idea of postponing the general election . |